The Daily Record refuses to publish Frankie Boyle's snarky MJ jokes

Frankie Boyle has quit his job at Scottish tabloid Daily Record after the paper refused to publish his Michael Jackson jokes. His bosses clearly thought the article - with references to Jackson's rumoured paedophilia - was offensive and unacceptable.

"We can all learn something from Michael’s life. For example, it looks like oxygen tents are a big waste of money.
Why did no one pick up on it when he had shown all the signs of a heart attack? Wheezing noises, jerking of the arms, ashen complexion? I suppose to be fair he has been showing all those symptoms since the mid eighties. Had Jackson’s staff noticed something was wrong earlier he might have been saved, but when they saw him grab his left arm, go stiff and yelp they just thought he was practising his moves for Beat It...
...I was a big Michael Jackson fan when I was 8. I didn't know it at the time, but I was his 'type.'
For his London concerts Michael Jackson advertised for children in wheelchairs or with missing legs! What parent would agree to that? Look what happened with kids who could run away! Those tickets sold out in minutes. An interesting attitude we have to paedophilia in this country, 'We don’t want paedophiles round here! Unless they’ve really worked on their choreography...'"

Frankie Boyle summed up his view of the situation to his website viewers:

"Oh dear. Had to quit my Daily Record column over a moral disagreement. We disagreed over whether it was ok to make jokes about a dead child molestor. Here is the whole column, big love my niggers."